Solved Getting nearby entities (players & mobs) and damaging them

I've been working on a plugin that introduces new PvP/PvE skills into minecraft.
Thus far, I have a double jump skill, an impale skill, and a feint skill.
I've decided to also add in combo-based attacks, and currently have it so you can only use impale within a certain time threshold of using your double jump (and also only while travelling downwards in your jump). It's become a very fun and fluid system, but ironically enough I can't figure out how to get entities nearby your player's location and damage them!

All help is, as always, appreciated

tl;dr version: I need to get all entities within my player's location and damage them.

 

Use player.getNearbyEntities()

 

I got this far, but how do I damage those entities?

For example:
Entity nearby = (Entitity) p.getNearbyEntities(5,5,5);
How do I damage the nearby entities, exactly?

 

Well you should look better at what this method returns. It's actually a list of entities:

Code:java

List<Entity> nearby =  p.getNearbyEntities(5,5,5);
for (Entity tmp: nearby)
   if (tmp instanceof Damageable)
      tmp.damage(2);

 

Ah, I understand now. It's late, I really can't think properly; thanks for the help